millipede

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Legs in every Atlantic and inland city,--legs in California and Oregon,--legs on the shores of 'Quoddy and of Lake Pontchartrain,--legs everywhere, like a millipede or a banian-tree The schoolmistress that was,--and is,--(there are her little scholars at the side-table.)

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  1. noun Any of various crawling herbivorous myriapods of the class Diplopoda, found worldwide and having a cylindrical segmented body with two pairs of legs attached to all segments except for the first four in the thoracic region. Also called diplopod.

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  • A harmless ol' millipede, she thought, and I nearly jumped out of my skin. —  F ;SF; - vol 099 issue 06 - December 2000
  • Catch you next time, Wheeler thought as the millipede and its entourage moved off into the marsh. —  F ;SF; - vol 099 issue 06 - December 2000
  • Mr Wonderful was working last night, and all of a sudden, I saw a millipede moving his 87 legs through the hallway, sliddering over the carpet. —  PhotocatsEyes
  • She describes their movement as flowing, almost as if they were not touching the ground and walking as we do, on two legs, but either floating or moving as a millipede does. —  Signs of the Times
  • On the thousandth, or thousand and first, morning after, he looks in the mirror and finds the millipede has stamped his face with a bilberry birthmark, from "ear to livid ear": —  Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
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  1. Latin mīlipeda, a kind of insect : mīlle, thousand; see gheslo- in Indo-European roots + pēs, ped-, foot; see ped- in Indo-European roots.
 

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